Join me at dVerse for Meeting the Bar where my challenge is to write a poem in one of the Repetitive Forms. We explore 5 potential forms: Villanelle, Terzanelle (like this one!), Pantoum, Triolet, and the Chant. Of course, you are also welcome to use any form that makes use of repetitive lines. Hope you will join in!

Thanks, Kim! Iguanas thrive a bit south of here, but we are too far north for them in Orlando. One day I saw one swimming gracefully across a small lake in town and I knew he must be a lost pet. This was written for him, in hopes he would find a spa before summer ended.

When I lived in Germany, one of my friends worked at Cologne Zoo and he had an iguana. I don’t know if it was rescued from the zoo. That friend was also unlucky enough to slip on a wet patch and fall in the piranha pool! He had just fed them.

Hahaha! An Iguana with an ear for jazz (variations on the scale). This Terzanelle form looks like it would be just this far past my poetic reach. You make it look easy. And the lizard at the spa is a great, indelible image. (A backstory to this one?)

A backstory, indeed! An iguana just a bit north of his comfort zone seen swimming across a like a couple of years back. In my imagination he found refuge in some glam spot before winter came on and froze him solid.

Iguanas are a bit like extra-terrestrials, aren’t they?
Hey Christine – your link doesn’t seem to work. Would you be willing the re-link your poem and I’ll delete the other one? Looking forward to reading what you’ve shared!